13-Year-Old Beats Tetris, Showcasing Gaming Community’s Focus on Speedrunning Records and Collaborative Projects
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13-year-old Willis Gibson becomes first human to beat original Nintendo Tetris by reaching the "kill screen".
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Speedrunning involves players exploiting glitches and optimizing routes to complete games extremely quickly, striving to match tool-assisted "perfect" times.
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Minecraft players collaborate on enormous projects like recreating Earth 11 or logging over 10 billion alien kills in Halo 3.
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Researchers have tried applying gaming techniques like badges and achievements to "gamify" work and education.
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Game designers argue for "gameful design" focused on fulfilling experiences rather than just productive outcomes.